The life of an unskilled worker - By Donna Acquaviva, Roanoke Times, VA
Ehrenreich concluded that the working poor neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for, they live in substandard housing so other homes will be shining clean, and they eat macaroni-and-cheese so they can serve others steak and shrimp. All of this helps keep inflation low and stocks high.
To be a member of the working poor then, is to be a nameless benefactor for everybody else.